Overview
A.E. Benjamin is a researcher affiliated with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Benjamin's work focuses on disability, long-term care, and health service access among vulnerable and minority populations, including immigrants. Benjamin is a co-editor of Indicators of Chronic Health Conditions: Monitoring Community-Level Delivery Systems (1997) alongside R.J. Newcomer.
Key Contributions / Features
- Lead author of the 2000 UCLA CHPR report on disability and health service access among California's immigrant population, which uses the 1994 NHIS to document the Epidemiological Paradox in functional disability outcomes.
- Demonstrated that Medicaid enrollment is the dominant enabler of health and social service use among immigrants, with insured immigrants using services at 2–10× the rate of uninsured immigrants.
- Research directly engages with post-PRWORA policy debates about immigrant eligibility for public health programs.
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